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Odraz B92 vesti (by 4 PM), February 28, 1997
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REPUBLIKA SRSPKA IN BELGRADE
A top level delegation from Republika Srpska (RS) headed by
Momcilo Krajisnik, a member of the Presidency of Bosnia
Herzegovina entered the offices of the Serbian President on Friday
afternoon. The delegation is to sign an agreement between Pale and
Belgrade on ``the establishment of special relations.'' Republica
Srpska's Prime Minister Gojko Klickovic and Parliamentary Speaker
Dragan Kalinic are members of the delegation. According to Beta,
Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslav President Zoran
Lilic and Montenegrin President Momir Bulatovic are also in the
building.
Mr Klickovic told AFP that negotiations on the establishment of
special relations had begun few days ago and were to continue with
President Milosevic in Blegrade on Friday afternoon.
According to Article 2, Point A of the Constitution of Bosnia
Herzegovina, its entities have the right to establish special
relations with neighbouring countries provided that those
relations do not breach the sovereingnity and territorial
integrity of Bosnia Herzegovina.
President Milosevic received Mr. Krajisnik on Monday for
discussions on the relationship between Serbia and RS with respect
to the conditions set down in the Dayton Accords.
STUDENTS AND LECTURERS PROTEST
The Univercity Council for Defence of Democracy and the Managing
Board of Student Protest 96/97 demonstrated in the University
Chancery on Friday. Protest representatives told media that the
``former'' Chancellor's lock-in with his bodyguards in the
Chancery on Thursday showed that he had no intention of
facilitating the resumption of University teaching, but was solely
interested in closing the University down.
RIFKIND CAGEY WITH ZAJEDNO
The Friday issue of the London daily Independent said that British
Foreign Minister Malcom Rifkind offerred virtually no concrete
help to the leaders of the Serbian opposition. The article said
however that the fact that the British Government had invited the
Zajedno leaders was a positive development, as Britain had
insisted on dealing only with Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic
until few months ago.
Noting the differences among the Zajedno triumvirate, the
Independent said that these were less important than their common
realisation of the necessity for Serbia to emerge from the
dictatorship into which it had sunk.
NEWS IN BRIEF
The Serbian Fund for Pension and Invalid Insurance lost 1.67
billion dinars in 1997. This brings the overall deficit of the
Fund to 2.5 billion dinars, the newly-appointed Managing Board of
the Fund stated on Friday.
The Democratic Party (DS), one of the Zajedno coalition members,
has urged the Serbian Government to immediately meet the demands
of striking teachers. Otherwise, the DS warned, the Government
would be responsible for the lost school year. The DS stressed
that ``the critical and humiliating position of the teachers is
the result of the negligence and stubbornness of the Serbian
Government.''
The Foundation for Humanitarian Rights announced on Friday that it
had filed a suit against unidentified members of the Serbian
police for the murder of Feriz Bljakcori from Pristina.
UN Spokesman Andrea Agnelli told media on Friday that 4 Muslim
houses had been destroyed on Thursday night in the Bosnian Serb
controlled village of Gajevi. According to AFP and FoNet, Muslim
refugees who had left the village during the war had recently
restored the houses. Mr. Agnelli said there were no casualties.
Bosnian Serb Nikola Jorgic, 50, appeared in a German court on
Friday charged with leading groups which massacred Muslims in
Bosnia in 1992, according to Reuters. German officials said that
they had offered the case to the Hague War Crimes Tribunal, but
the tribanl agreed that Germany should continue the case.
Prepared by: Marija Milosavljevic
Edited by: Steve Agnew
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